Allen's Revenge: Exposes Underage Sex Scenes In Opponent's Novels

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http://www.drudgereport.com/flashaw.htm

Obviously since you libs were disgusted by Foley (and with good reason) this should disgust you also.

WEBB’S WEIRD WORLD

The Author’s Disturbing Writings Show a Continued Pattern of Demeaning Women

· Some of Webb’s writings are very disturbing for a candidate hoping to represent the families of Virginians in the U.S. Senate.

· Many excellent books about the United States military and wartime service accomplish their purposes, and even win awards, without systematically demeaning women, and without dehumanizing women, men and even children.

· Webb’s novels disturbingly and consistently – indeed, almost uniformly – portray women as servile, subordinate, inept, incompetent, promiscuous, perverted, or some combination of these. In novel after novel, Webb assigns his female characters base, negative characteristics. In thousands of pages of fiction penned by Webb, there are few if any strong, admirable women or positive female role models.

Why does Jim Webb refuse to portray women in a respectful, positive light, whether in his non-fiction concerning their role in the military, or in his provocative novels? How can women trust him to represent their views in the Senate when chauvinistic attitudes and sexually exploitive references run throughout his fiction and non-fiction writings?

· Most Virginians and Americans would find passages such as those below shocking, especially coming from the pen of someone who seeks the privilege of serving in the United States Senate, one of the highest offices in the land:


Im not going to post the more graphic passages, you can look in the link.
 
Maybe I'd trust it if it wasn't in the drudge report, nice try though. Allen's still a dick (and I'll vote for Webb and vote no on that god damned marriage amendment which will pass anyway...).
 
OH NOES! HE WROTED A BAD BOOK!

If Wal-Mart wasn't stocked to the brims with this kind of bullshit, I'd be appalled; since the same store that has its book section split into "Harlequin Romances" and "Jesus Books" won't sell me a record where the artists say "fuck," I'll call this par for the course for bad fiction novels.

Then again, comparing a FICTIONAL NOVEL to TRYING TO SOLICIT SEX FROM REAL LIFE TEENAGERS is called, as you well know, "grasping at straws." If someone's *novel* would put you over the edge to vote for a racist piece of garbage, then you're just not a very rational thinking person anyway. For schuerm, again, par for the course.

At the end of the day, kid-o, Jim Webb was a die-hard Republican for the majority of his post-Vietnam career; he was a chauvanistic asshole who wrotes many papers (including published pieces in the oh-so-not-liberal National Review) about how women are unfit for combat. If you watched Meet the Press, instead of, say, having Drudge tell you what to think, you would have seen "Iron" Tim Russert grill him on the shit he said and did in his past. Then again, I'm sure you were reading "Mallard Fillmore" in the Sunday funny pages instead, or going to church and praying for Muslims to die and for tax cuts to happen.

Webb was also a somewhat prominent member of the - get this, shecky - Reagan administration. I'm not entirely clear on when he decided to call himself a Democrat, but the way Bush has run this country, I'd be shocked if it happened anytime prior to 2003.

So, yeah, while we're on the topic of books...oh, nevermind. You're just desperate like a hooker in Amish country.
 
I'd love to see Bill O'reilly's reaction to this. If he were to say anything negative about Webb, I would point to this:

http://www.amazon.com/Those-Who-Tre.../104-9672088-5780724?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

Followed by this:

"Ashley was now wearing only brief white panties. She had signaled her desire by removing her shirt and skirt, and by leaning back on the couch. She closed her eyes, concentrating on nothing but Shannon's tongue and lips. He gently teased her by licking the areas around her most sensitive erogenous zone. Then he slipped her panties down her legs and, within seconds, his tongue was inside her, moving rapidly."
 
“James Webb’s new novel paints a portrait of a modern Vietnam charged with hopes for the future but haunted by the ghosts of its war-torn past. It captures well the lingering scars of the war, and exposes the tension between the dynamism of a new generation and the invisible bondage of an older generation for whom wartime allegiances, and animosities, are rendered no less vivid by the passage of time. A novel of revenge and redemption that tells us much about both where Vietnam is headed and where it has been.”
— Senator John McCain

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780440240914&view=quotes
 
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Obviously since you libs were disgusted by Foley (and with good reason) this should disgust you also.
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Your wording seems to suggest that being appalled by pedophilia is a partisan trait
 
gotta love the irony of it all:

Speaking to Washington Post radio, Webb said, "I mean we can go and read Lynne Cheney's lesbian love scenes if you want to, you know, get graphic on stuff."

Cheney then told CNN, "Jim Webb is full of baloney. I have never written anything sexually explicit."

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sent out a news release listing sexual passages in books by Cheney and other GOP conservatives, including Dick Cheney's former chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

The DSCC said Cheney's books featured brothels and attempted rape.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/29/cheney.lynne.novel/index.html
 
George Allen

Big dumb George Allen almost crapped his pants with glee last week when his campaign staff thought they'd been handed a real "gotcha" moment to use against Democrat Jim Webb in Virgina's senate race.

It turns out that Jim Webb wrote a book in 2001 called Lost Soldiers. Here's an excerpt from the Publishers Weekly review:

Webb's cultural and political portrayal of Vietnam 25 years after the war's end is delivered with such bold strokes and magical detail that it really doesn't matter that the plot itself is relegated to the backseat. This is a highly personal and empathetic look at today's Vietnam, a land of misery and inequity, yet one still vibrantly alive.

And here's what John McCain thought of the novel:

James Webb's new novel paints a portrait of a modern Vietnam charged with hopes for the future but haunted by the ghosts of its war-torn past. It captures well the lingering scars of the war, and exposes the tension between the dynamism of a new generation and the invisible bondage of an older generation for whom wartime allegiances, and animosities, are rendered no less vivid by the passage of time. A novel of revenge and redemption that tells us much about both where Vietnam is headed and where it has been.

And here's how the Drudge Report commented on Webb's book last week (sorry, I've decided not to link to that piece of shit website):

ALLEN'S REVENGE: EXPOSES UNDERAGE SEX SCENES IN OPPONENT'S NOVELS

Sen. George Allen, R-VA, unleashed a press release late Thursday that exposed his rival's fiction writing, which includes graphic underage sex scenes.

Yes, Allen's increasingly desperate campaign decided last week to smear Jim Webb for writing books full of pedophilia and "graphic sex scenes."

Drudge helpfully posted a snippet from the book. Here it is:

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My goodness! That looks incredibly salacious! Until you see it in context, of course:

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Far from a "graphic sex scene," Webb is describing a cultural practice which commonly occurs in parts of Asia, and which he personally witnessed while he was a journalist in Bangkok.

Allen's lame attack brought criticism from conservatives and liberals alike. For example, John Podhoretz said, "Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be on the Right." And Michele Malkin said, "I think this charge is particularly silly and I happen to be somebody who supports Republicans. Condemning it is something more conservatives should do ... It looks desperate, it looks pathetic and it looks so immature."

And then there's my personal favorite, from the Washington Times blog:

George Allen is an opportunistic philistine.

You took the words right out of my mouth.
 
Those damned Republicans changed the page! NOOOO!!!

I appreciate the effort to which the blogger you cited worked to provide context, but this really isn't something worth even debating. It's a fictional novel, for fuck's sake. I can't wait until someone runs for public office (in perhaps a decade or so) and has their blog used against them like this (truth be told, it would probably be more relevant).

If you want to strategize against Webb with mudslinging, this is really shoddy work. He has a litany of things he has written in the past (mid-70s through mid-80s, as far as I can tell) that make him out to be a misogynistic pigface. He wrote famous and well-cited op-eds suggesting women shouldn't be in the military, that women were unfit for combat, and worst of all, played the "blame the victim" game during the Tailhook scandal's heyday. If George Allen can be a circumstantial racist, Jim Webb can be a circumstantial sexist.

Tim Russert grilled Webb on this on Meet the Press a few weeks back, and I was very very displeased with how Webb chose to respond. He didn't apologize, or rescind his comments. He went the ambiguous "that was then, this is now" route in his answers, and stumbled awkwardly when Russert asked him if women should be in combat today. I was very disappointed by that.

At any rate, that's Webb in real life, Webb stating his opinions on how things ought to be in the real world. This isn't some bullshit wannaba John Patterson/Tom Clancy/Michael Crichton piece of pap fucking fiction. It's what he genuinely thinks, and nobody has discussed this narrative. I think it's despicable, and I'm thrilled I don't live in Virginia, because although I wouldn't vote for Allen if my life was on the line, Webb still has to work to get my vote - and he only has 8 days.
 
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